Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2020-4888
DESCRIPTION: IBM QRadar SIEM could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the Java deserialization function. By sending a malicious serialized Java object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190912 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 Patch 1
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.3 Patch 7
Remediation/Fixes
QRadar / QRM / QVM 7.4.2 Patch 2
QRadar / QRM / QVM 7.3.3 Patch 7 IF 1
QRadar incident forensics please use the SFS below
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Jang Nguyen
Change History
27 Jan 2021: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 February 2021
UID
ibm16409306